Born in 1961 in Nikolaev, Ukraine. Zhernokluev's work is held in a number of public collections, including the State Russian Museum (St.Petersburg, Russia), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine), Museum of The History of Religion and Art (Kiev, Ukraine), Theodosia Literary Memorial Museum of A.S.Green (Crimea), Belgorod State Museum (Belgorod, Russia), Mizel Museum (Denver, USA), Russian Fund of Culture and Russian Academy of Arts.

The artist is interested in the problem of searching for the sense of painting heritage, the analysis of picturesque expression. The basis of his works, apart from the objects and figures, are also the color, shadows and airy environment, which they create.